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EUROPE - Investors are flocking to safe haven UK government bonds as they seek shelter from turbulent global markets.

Interest rate hedging jumped 24% in Q2 this year after falls in short-term interest rates and the rising cost of asset swapped index-linked gilts, F&C research shows.

How schemes are embracing SRI, by Helen Morrissey

Fiduciary management has been embraced by the Netherlands with around 90% of assets under management placed in a fiduciary contract. This is in stark contrast to the second biggest market - the UK - where take up is barely 10%. Andrew Short compares both...

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State Street has been appointed by F&C Asset Management to provide investment manager operations outsourcing for £106bn in assets.

GLOBAL - State Street has been appointed by F&C Asset Management to provide investment manager operations outsourcing for £106bn in assets.

GERMANY - Bayerische Versorgungskammer, Germany's largest public pension fund, has appointed F&C Investments to provide shareholder engagement services for its equities and bond holdings.

Pension funds and other institutional investors have reversed outflows that plagued convertible bonds after the credit crunch, forcing managers to bump up against capacity, as David Walker reports

Take up of fiduciary management in the Netherlands has been phenomenal. Andrew Short asks what lessons the UK can learn from this approach.